I’m away from home for work and I just have this mediocre laptop that says I don’t have enough space for wow even though I have nothing on it.
I tried downloading it on a usb, but it won’t load properly when I do it. Isn’t there a way to get it on here? I’ll be fine on the lowest settjngs, I just want to try out MoP remix for a bit.
Is adding RAM or buying a new laptop my only options?
External hard drive might work, though that’ll likely still go through a USB port. Some are advertised as being usable for games.
At least that’s how I see the “not enough space” notification, hard drive space is not enough… and WoW’s definitely a big game after 20 years of spaghetti code.
You can try Geforce NOW if your connection happens to be good enough and if you don’t mind not having addons. Not sure about the pricing though.
Tell us what you’ve got. How much RAM, how much storage.
The cheapest is free but you only get 1 hour play sessions before you have to log back in again. The most expensive is $19.99 a month.(month to month/16.67 if you pay for 6 months)
But yeah, the internet connection is the most important part and if you’re travelling it could be rough…especially if you are trying to use hotel internet
Definitely wouldn’t hurt for the OP to give the free mode a try before investing in potato upgrades
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Above is what’s recommended for the current expansion as a minimum requirement. I would suggest seeing if you can meet those specs. If not it could be why.
It will run on some low spec systems, but you haven’t given us enough into to work out what could be causing the issue with that laptop.
If it’s a work laptop intended for office work, my initial suspicion would be an incompatible GPU in the form of a lower end IGP.
New WOW retail install is just short of 100Gig of storage.
New WOW classic install is about 15Gig of storage.
I also suspect that the laptop in question does not have enough storage space for the version of WOW the OP is installing.
This is my rig.
This is definitely low.
Was keeping a 12 year old potato going and it was acceptable up to this expansion. The two things WoW seems to really need at the low end are 16gig of ram and a fast SSD.
This expansion broke the potato, due mostly to some effects in instances and large battles that was bringing things to under 10 FPS.
The not enough space seems weird. We used to have to worry about thing like manually de-fragging the drive to create a large enough contiguous space. If the drive is really old there might be a lot of bad sectors that are also making it not pass a contiguous space test.
You could probably fit Classic on there…better than nothing.
Whole point is I just want to get the trader’s tender for the month/reward.
If I could get it via classic, I would.
I’ve got all the components for a brand new build sitting on my work bench, but I’m so lazy I’m still running this Core 2Duo box with an Nvidia GTS (not even a GTX ?) 450 video card on super low settings. This thing is like Fred Flintstone running WoW on a slab of slate rock. But it does ok.
I don’t want to play ignorance or troll. So I’ll just start from the bottom.
USBs are a step below External Hard Drives, which are a step below Internal Hard Drives, mostly due to architecture of the ports/cables.
If you have less than 8GB of RAM, I wouldn’t even bother with upgrading the RAM, because it’s likely the least of your issues.
…But RAM does not give you more space. If you just lack space, you just need a better drive, but modern WoW isn’t all that healthy for older hard drives. It’s really not that good for newer hard drives, either, but hybrid drives won’t die after weeks of wear and tear due to it.